Punishment and Prisons
Subtitle: Power and the Carceral State
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780857029539
Subjects: Corrections; Social Science
Description: Punishment and Prisons is a scholarly, powerful and inspirational critique. With passion and humanity, Joe Sim strips neo-liberal penal policies of their reformist pretensions and demonstrates that prisons will continue to be brutal enforcers of gross economic inequalities until such time as the abolitionist alternative is realised' - Pat Carlen. Joe Sim has long occupied a key position in British and European criminology. This book is a genuinely important addition to the literature; it is controversial and will stimulate debate. Punishment and Prisons shows that critical criminology is alive.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; contents; acknowledgements; preface; 1 continuity and contestation in penal politics; 2 law, order and the penal system 197483; 3 hard reign: thatcherism and the consolidation of penal authoritarianism 198390; 4 from big house to bleak house: prisons in the 'iron times' 199097; 5 'piety and iron': new labour and social authoritarianism; 6 'those with no capital get the punishment': new labour and the working prison; 7 for abolitionist praxis: transcending the prison mentality; 8 abolitionism in an anti-utopian age; bibliography; index.